2006 Meistriliiga

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Meistriliiga
Season2006
Champions Levadia
(4th title)
Top goalscorer Maksim Gruznov (31)
2005
2007

2006 Meistriliiga was the 16th season of the Meistriliiga, Estonia's premier football league. Levadia won their fourth title.

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Season overview

FC Levadia won the 2006 Meistriliiga championship and entered the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League 1st Qualifying Round. Narva Trans finished in their best ever silver-medal position, while FC Flora also gained a place compared to last season on 2005 champions FC TVMK's disappointing year. The latter will enter the Intertoto Cup and the other two above mentioned teams enter the UEFA Cup qualifying rounds in the summer of 2007.

The bottom of the table provided some intrigue as well. The two Tartu teams ended mid-table, with Tammeka's youthful-looking squad impressing under experienced coach and ex-international Sergei Ratnikov, in his first year as the head coach. Pärnu Vaprus was perhaps the surprise package of the season finishing seventh on their debut year in the Meistriliiga and bringing Pärnu back on to the Estonian football map. Mainly Russian-speaking Tallinn team, FC Ajax Lasnamäe, proved a point by staying up against all predictions. JK Viljandi Tulevik had a dreadful year and had to go into the play-offs against Esiliiga's JK Tallinna Kalev and lost, which should've meant their relegation a step down. But after the merging of the Tartu clubs, JK Maag and Tammeka, they will still be in the Meistriliiga in 2007. The team with the youngest average aged squad in the league, Warrior Valga, were relegated without a meaningful fight.

The league's top scorers were two JK Narva Trans strikers Maksim Gruznov (with 31 goals) and Dmitri Lipartov (27 goals). FC Flora Tallinn's Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko scored 25, FC Levadia Tallinn's Indrek Zelinski 21 goals.

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification or relegation
1 Levadia (C)36304211429+8594Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2 Narva Trans 36258310636+7083Qualification for UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3 Flora 3626469334+5982
4 TVMK 3622688337+4672Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round
5 Maag 36139146568348
6 Tammeka 361271745571243
7 Vaprus 361042249863734
8 Lasnamäe Ajax 366723351046925
9 Tulevik 36552629744520Qualification for relegation play-offs
10 Warrior (R)363231161109411Relegation to Esiliiga
Source: Estonian Football Association (in Estonian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) number of wins; 3) head-to-head points; 4) head-to-head goal difference; 5) head-to-head goals scored; 6) goal difference; 7) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Relegation play-off

Tallinna Kalev + / - Tulevik
Tulevik - / + Tallinna Kalev

Both games were awarded - / + to Tallinna Kalev since Tulevik fielded an ineligible player.

Kalev had originally won 1 – 1 with away goals

Tulevik kept their place in the Meistriliiga as a result of merger of Tammeka Tartu and Maag Tartu. [1]

Results

Each team played every opponent four times, twice at home and twice on the road, for a total of 36 games.

Season statistics

Top scorers

RankPlayerClubGoals [2]
1 Flag of Estonia.svg Maksim Gruznov Narva Trans31
2 Flag of Russia.svg Dmitri Lipartov Narva Trans27
3 Flag of Estonia.svg Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko Flora25
4 Flag of Estonia.svg Indrek Zelinski Levadia21
5 Flag of Estonia.svg Aleksandr DubõkinNarva Trans19
6 Flag of Estonia.svg Vitali Gussev Maag Tartu18
Flag of Estonia.svg Vladislav Gussev TVMK
Flag of Estonia.svg Konstantin Vassiljev Levadia
9 Flag of Russia.svg Nikita Andreev Levadia17
Flag of Latvia.svg Viktors Dobrecovs TVMK

See also

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References

  1. "Jalgpalliliit tühistas Kalevi ja Tuleviku mängude tulemused". Eesti Päevaleht. 14 November 2006.
  2. "MÄNGUDE AJALUGU" (in Estonian). Estonian Football Association.